Papoose Creek
Papoose Creek is a stream in Washington County, Missouri, Washington County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Little Indian Creek. The stream headwaters arise at adjacent to the west side of Missouri Route 47 and it flows to the southwest for approximately 1.5 miles to its confluence with Little Indian Creek just north of Missouri Route A and west of the community of Richwoods, Missouri, Richwoods at . Papoose Creek was so named due to its diminutive size, which was likened to a papoose. See also *List of rivers of Missouri References

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Stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long large streams are usually called rivers, while smaller, less voluminous and more intermittent river, intermittent streams are known as streamlets, brooks or creeks. The flow of a stream is controlled by three inputs – surface runoff (from precipitation or meltwater), daylighting (streams), daylighted subterranean river, subterranean water, and surfaced groundwater (Spring (hydrology), spring water). The surface and subterranean water are highly variable between periods of rainfall. Groundwater, on the other hand, has a relatively constant input and is controlled more by long-term patterns of precipitation. The stream encompasses surface, subsurface and groundwater fluxes th ...
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